Colorado legal term
Manufacture in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Manufacture” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Colorado criminal code.
What does “Manufacture” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Manufacture" means to produce, prepare, propagate, compound, convert, or process a controlled substance, directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin, chemical synthesis, or a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container. (C.R.S. § 18-18-102)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Offenses relating to marijuana and marijuana concentrate
- Enforcement of large-capacity magazine ban by regulating the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of specified semiautomatic firearms
- Imitation controlled substances
- Offenses relating to natural medicine and natural medicine product
- Unlawful distribution, manufacturing, dispensing, or sale
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, marking, altering, or modification of equipment and devices related to limited gaming
- Counterfeit substances prohibited
- Criminal possession of forgery devices
- Extraction of marijuana concentrate
- Possession of a gambling device or record
- Special offender
- Tampering or drugging of livestock
Related terms in the same statutes
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